Just Another Cold Winter Day in CANADA

[@azdbuk]

Hey Gabe, awesome to ponder the unknown, we wait patiently for your next adventure, peace and condolences in this holiday season.

[@user-ed2go3zv8x]

Gorgeous landscapes.Thank you ❤

[@ladyblabla3611]

I love these whole Canada trip so much! Such a christmass vibe also. Everything looks so cozy!

[@LinzYoutube]

I love that you are here in Canada! These Canadian vlogs have been so great! Hope to see more of our beautiful country featured in more of your videos! 🇨🇦

[@annieis300]

Canada is so VERY beautiful... Canmore looks cool too!!! 💖💖💖🥶🥶🥶

[@ageoflove1980]

Love this sneaking in to luxury hotels thing :D

[@evacrabb5294]

There is an awesome summertime hike from the back of Lake Louise to the Plain of 6 glaciers tea house with gorgeous scenery! You have to come back in the summer!

[@lauramazerolle9859]

Lake Louise is more expensive because of the proximity to the ski hill. Given that Banff is a half hour away from LL, one of the best ski hills in western Canada, they charge more for everything. I lived in Banff for 10 years and seeing my old stomping grounds through your videos makes me reminisce. Thank you!

[@grantwtk]

Temporarily working there which became 10 years?

[@EsaLena1]

Almost 20 years ago, I walked into a restaurant in Miami and there was a "filming in progress" sign on the door. It was for a music video for a salsa singer that I liked well enough at the time...but then, standing only about 5 feet from me, was Emilio Estefan.

[@janakotrcova2790]

Great!😊Beautiful snow-covered mountains,impressive Christmas decorations.😊Greetings from Prague,we envy the snow!👍

[@thewanderingweave6286]

So cosy!

[@johnnylugo9819]

Do like the Birds which head south for the winter

[@ludfx4yyc403]

💡👍Brilliant !!

[@bobk18]

During covid we were getting hotel rooms in Banff for as little as $67 per night. I know that hostel well. Never stayed but we stop there often to eat at their restaurant. You don’t have to worry about going through the ice at L.L. If you do, you won’t have any worries. The Fairmont chain bought up most of the old railroad (CNR/CPR) hotels in Canada. 👍🍁

[@dadisphat6426]

The Canmore brewery is a great experience!

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

I'd seen the sign for it, planned to stop and then ended up in Murietta's, which was nice as well.

[@dadisphat6426]

@@GabrielTravelerVideoseither way you got hooked up!

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

That copper ale was one of the best I've had.

[@dadisphat6426]

@@GabrielTravelerVideosyep. I could tell you would enjoy it. You seem to go for the amber malty beers

[@Seanney25582]

I can’t believe it’s safe to step on the lake 😮

[@pablopiquante3227]

Hoped you stopped at Johnston Canyon on the way to Canmore! Enjoy your time in the beautiful Canadian Rockies!

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Didn't stop there but will keep it in mind for another time as I plan to come back, maybe in spring.

[@froggerc625]

​@@GabrielTravelerVideosLove the area in late May to mid June when the wildlife are all over the place :)

[@lindabueckert9559]

It is definitely beautiful in the spring and summer. Also busier i think.

[@bobk18]

@@lindabueckert9559 much busier in the summer!!! I was going to comment on how quiet it looked on L.L. and in Banff townsite. We tend to stay out of Banff townsite in the summer. Jasper is a different place than Banff. Both are great, just a little more relaxed in Jasper. 👍🍁

[@MakingTracks]

I used to work in town at Lake Louise

[@louiseeyahpaise795]

Great day in the Rockies 👍🏽☺

[@ginny709]

Beautiful footage , great relaxing video...!

[@Lorraine-p4r]

I wear a thermal vest, three cardigans or jumpers, wool if got any after moths eat them. A long winter duvet like coat. All winter.

[@DMUSA536]

Great Canadian adventure. Can’t wait to see where you book. Nice of your followers to offer a place to park your car 😊

[@WanderingCanadian1]

Lake Louise is typically more expensive to stay at due to its remoteness but also its proximity to the lake and ski resort. With that said, many hotels in Banff are owned by the same 2-3 companies, so the prices are also fucked because of that Chateau Lake Louise is also one of the most expensive and luxurious hotels in the country (just like Banff Springs). Not surprised it was all blocked off inside. "Cheap" rooms in that hotel start at like $800/night CAD during busier times of the year

[@haraldkreuz5824]

merry merry!!❄⛸🥶👋🇨🇦

[@Ivyslife33]

Beautiful land , the city is pretty , i can imagine this place in the summer🌷🌴🌳🌱

[@TravelHungryForLife]

Awesome upload here my friend big thumbs up cheers 👉👉👍👍🤗

[@evanoffm]

Great videos Gabe! Keep up the good work, you are integrated into my infotainment every week, thank you!!!

[@StartLivingNow1963]

Thank You Gabriel love the view of the Rocky Mountain's hope you get your passport all sorted out. I have been out to Alberta many times to work out in Fort Mac been to Calgary and Edmonton seen the Rocky's from a Plane Flying from Calgary to Fort Mac it is Beautiful out there. Wishing You Safe Travels from the East Coast of Canada.🙂💙👍

[@tombuddy100]

Accommodation price for a room in a hostel near lake Louise twice as much as for an apartment in Canmore 50 kilometers away.

[@thortessem271]

Merry Christmas

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Thanks, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

[@verndog2158]

Yeah, Calgarians...you came through with a place for Gabe to park his car!! All the best from Invermere...

[@Gemelli2906]

Stunning scenery!

[@manout3372]

I'm in the Philippines right now, and my room has a full on kitchen, bathroom, its about 8X the size of that room, good wifi, everything..... $6.50 a night.... slightly better deal than $117 LOL

[@lbunnygordon1133]

What area

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

I'm seriously thinking about heading back to the Phils, only been there once in 2010, tons more to see. And yeah, can't beat those prices, especially for what you get.

[@TheSwede70]

@@GabrielTravelerVideos I am going in january to the Philippines! 540 USD return to Manila from Stockholm, amazing deal. Going to stop for 3 days in Beijing on the way there. I might also go to Japan for a week or two if I feel like it, not booked yet.

[@stevenlapidus2902]

Recently returned from the Philippines and think that a few weeks idyll there has Gabriel Travellers’ moniker all over it!

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

@@TheSwede70 Damn, that is a great deal on a long flight.

[@carolinastyle7357]

Welcome to Alberta, I'm here in calgary 😅

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Cool, me too right now. Next video is in Calgary.

[@carolinastyle7357]

@@GabrielTravelerVideos I'm fallow before pandemic, that's awesome 👌 you here in calgary. 🫶

[@thefoodyoumaylike1293]

Awesome music 🎶

[@palukens]

Very cool intro!

[@WBHadventure]

Awesome vid ,I love living so close to the mountains.cheers 🤟🤟

[@scottarchibaldmusic]

Its all the same company.. All these hotels used to be owned by CP Rail and were bought out by Fairmont.

[@bobk18]

@@scottarchibaldmusic they also bought the CNR Hotels.

[@marlenemcmillan8891]

Lake Louise is a tourist destination

[@CelticMickWalks]

Gee expensive for a hostel 😮

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Seriously.

[@janef220]

Canadians avoid this place now because of this gouging.I think it’s just a touristy place now.

[@WanderingCanadian1]

​@janef220 we're definitely being priced out of our own National Parks now. Me and my gf visit the parks multiple times a year, but very rarely stay in any hotels there.

[@janef220]

@@WanderingCanadian1 even Canmore in the summer. A few years ago they were around $400 a night

[@thevixenxiii]

Love it

[@garyrigby21]

Look for Bigfoot tracks in the snow

[@mreppen1]

Wife and I got a good VRBO in Canmore, it was pretty cheap in August.

[@wilfredotorres6628]

Hi Gabriel, it is a long chilly day. Your patience is wearing thin to just get going. I'm sure it's been a while since you have been held up depending on what to do at this point, but I'm sure it will get resolved soon you just have to be patient.

[@leswhynin913]

Snow is coming Gabe. I'm in Edmonton and it's quite a bit colder than in Banff today

[@IceGuts]

Quite often slush develops above the ice surface between fresh snow and the ice.

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Exactly.

[@JennyGunner-ge3lz]

Great run across a frozen Lake Louise! I have only seen photos of Lake Louise in summer, incredibly beautiful. Canmore seems like a nice, quaint little town. Nice hotel with a good price and the town still has beautiful mountain views. Thank you for another awesome video of this beautiful area. 🍷❤️

[@terizumbusch8408]

I really enjoyed my time and can more or less fall when I was there. I had a guided float on the river and it was just beautiful.And there was so much more to canmore than it looked like there was from the freeway pull off. Thank you so much for this tour of an area.That I really fell in love with.❤

[@marlenemcmillan8891]

Summer has great hiking

[@RG-cz1tc]

Gabriel, it looks like you are getting good value in accommodation and meals with the Canadian dollar pricing. Calgary would be worth a visit at some time in the future, maybe summer. Maybe Sicily or Sardinia would be interesting choices at this time of year, sunny, not too hot. Also Corsica, the birthplace of Napoleon.

[@turtletalk4905]

Love the canadian series, i am going snowboarding in the dolomites in 3 weeks 🎉

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

That sounds amazing, have a blast.

[@lbunnygordon1133]

Amazing one of very best..live music vibe still kisten to Seals & Croft music.

[@MultiCorker]

Golden would have been a good place to stay - about an hour west of Banff and very scenic. kicking horse!!

[@iammarkham86]

BAJA la paz :) next destination...whale season 🐳

[@janef220]

You should be getting a break on GST now!

[@danm3570]

hi Gabriel, I hope you look around that posh hotel in quebec at some point also. I think it's also a fairmount hotel

[@Seanney25582]

Looks like there has been fresh snow

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Only a fraction of a centimeter overnight, must have snowed a fair amount in the previous few weeks.

[@mreppen1]

My wife and I had a beer at that same strip mall in 2019

[@rumik-stahnke6512]

Nice one 👍🤩Thanks 😁✌

[@Seanney25582]

Lake Louise is a great place to go skiing

[@AnthonyJosh]

Just wanted to inform you that Americans can now visit China visa free for ten days as of today. I’m planning to visit China in June 2025 for ten days.

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Excellent, great to know, that's amazing. I'll keep it in mind for my upcoming trip. Do you know if you need to show proof of accommodation or an onward flight?

[@AnthonyJosh]

@@GabrielTravelerVideos I believe you only need an entry and exit ticket in and out of China.

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Alright, good to know, that's amazing.

[@Bishma-t9q]

85 percent of your videos I watch are the india videos and I watch them over and over. Anyway your an easy guy to like. Thanks for your videos.

[@chrisvodicka9406]

there's a waterfall (frozen in winter) near the end of Lake Louise

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

That makes sense, maybe shoulda gone to the end...next time.

[@UVF79]

😃👍🏻

[@MyViewToronto]

If that hostel was $168...I assume that expensive hotel on Lake Louise is over $500 per night?

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Probably, the Fairmont in Banff was $600 USD or $900 CAD and up.

[@damienohare7473]

Expensive for a hostel

[@WilliamKilduff-d4i]

Technically it's still fall 🍂 Autumn the only season with two names till the 21st.

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Technically true, except in this part of the world winter starts a lot earlier.

[@WilliamKilduff-d4i]

@GabrielTravelerVideos yes I spent 13 winters in Alaska

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

I see. I spent just two winters in Alaska, one in Fairbanks and one in Juneau and then I visited Juneau again in winter a few years ago. But I remember how short fall is, it lasts about two weeks, the leaves on the trees start changing colors and then boom, they're on the ground sometime in October and it starts to get down to freezing temperatures and possible snow in October or November.

[@pasqualeabarno]

👍👍👍

[@PNM_79]

I hate how expensive it is to come here.

[@mirzagoralija4492]

😊❤🇧🇦🗻🏔⛰

[@licuta7376]

❤️👍❤️

[@johnappel5528]

Who was that 😂

[@Avarua59]

Those LL hostels are a huge rip-off!

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Definitely overpriced for the room, but also the cheapest thing in town other than a dorm bed.

[@kiwisounds3505]

1st

[@kiwisounds3505]

Safe travels Gabe

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

You got it, congrats and thanks, you too.

[@catherineloftus1376]

Meal seems expensive, but room a great price. 👍

[@sterlingshane2566]

Will you be visiting Winnipeg this trip?

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Nope, a 14 hour drive from here. Is that where Karl Watson is now?

[@End_Illegal_Apartheid_israhell]

ok thanks

[@veliborb]

I really enjoy Canada, but it's so expensive, very hard to plan your trip 😢

[@55giantsfan22]

Any plans on going to Syria? That would be so awesome

[@innovation5698]

Lol crazy guy

[@ageoflove1980]

So, quick question? Why do you always travel around so much, other than just personal preference of course? What I usually like to do is rent a long stay apartment in a nice town with good connections and explore from there doing daytrips, rather than keep moving around. This offers the advantages of getting a better deal on Booking for private apartments. Usually these type of places require a cleaning fee, but that fee is the same whether you stay one or seven nights. Plus it allows to really settle in. Usually I get a place with a washer and a kitchen, saving a lot of money on food because ill just go to the supermarket. This is great because when you stay at least a week somewhere, you can buy some things that will last you for days. The best thing about staying longer is that it just saves a lot of time. Packing you bags, moving around, checking in again and all that usually end up taking a full day without actually happening much. And, dont really know how to explain it, but after a couple of days when you are really getting a feel for the place, it starts to feel a bit like "home". And I really like that feeling because it means that you are really building a personal connection to a place rather than the feeling you are just passing through. Getting an apartment with your own keys really helps with that too, because a hotel always make you feel like you are a guest and dont reallly belong there. Some of my better travel experiences are from this way of traveling. Like little things like a small corner bar where you go every night for a beer and really start to know the owner and some locals, really enforce this feeling of belonging and somehow causes to feel like you are more "there" if that makes any sense. In Europe we always kind of wonder about Americans doing "Europe" in three weeks, seeing like 8 different countries. At some point I think, seeing more is actually causing you to see less. There is only so much a human can handle. And after visiting the 10th lovely medieval town with the lovely medieval church in 10 days... Yeah, I just dont think we as humans are capable of appreciating it all with that sort of high intensity traveling with every day planned out to the minute. Anyway, would have loved to see more from Banff national park as it looks amazing, longer hikes and all that. Everything seems so rushed. Now I get that this is of course a luxury a content creator might not have, but I would have probably just looked on Booking for a nice fully furnished apartment for a week and really made use of having full days to explore and to really get out there in nature.

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Like you said, personal preference basically. Staying in places longer term is a very different form of travel with advantages and disadvantages. For one thing, as a youtuber I can't make videos in the same place for months at a time. I would need to have another source of income because people don't really want to see fifty videos in the same place over and over again, so it would be a different situation in which I would need to find another way to support myself, an additional source of income. So make occasional videos once or twice a week, but also have another online job to supplement youtube. But of course it would still be possible, especially if my expenses were lower. Ultimately it's just about different travel styles. I usually want to see a variety of different places in the countries I go to and enjoy the excitement of traveling from one place to the next, despite the challenge of having to pack up regularly. I've done longer term stays in various places such as Jasper National Park, where I've mentioned that I worked for months at a time.

[@ageoflove1980]

@@GabrielTravelerVideos Thanks for your insights. Yeah its probably not easy to basically be always working and traveling at the same time while looking for interesting content. But every job has its challenges I suppose. Probably where you travel also matters a lot. I usually travel in Western Europe: Germany, The Netherlands, France , Spain, Italy and so forth. And these countries have very good transportation and are very densely packed, so I guess its just way easier to do interesting daytrips. But man... just being always stuck in a hotelroom, how nice it may be, would be a bummer.

[@powshredder3716]

Banff springs is Fairmont too.

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Doh! You're right. I should have checked my own video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnjQmIOiltqBkJYsi=qNe7AS42WoFkqnGZ&t=1568

[@powshredder3716]

@@GabrielTravelerVideos I saw another youtuber say it too once, so I had to check myself lol. I used to work in those areas , Lake Louise , Banff ,Canmore etc. Any plans to go to Kananaskis? it's not a hustle bustle like Banff but it is super beautiful.

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

I won't make it there this time, there's one more video coming of Calgary and then I'm heading somewhere much warmer. But I'm parking my car up here so I'll be back sometime, maybe in the spring or summer.